The Sun. — London, England, 1864-12-16 00:00:00

X - 0 - I, : cTEY ,DTA3KET AND rIONHERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK, The probability that a stimulus will be given to trade thr ough the reduction effected yesterday in the rate of discount has brought out an additional supply of bills. The Money Market is now well supplied with capital, and there appears to be little doubt that the commercial com munity will, as soon as the accounts for the whole Year are completed, be induced to enter into larger tr aaeactiens than recently. Of late business has been ci rcumscribed in consequence of the prudence generally observed by all classes during the recent pressure and s tringency. The future course of affairs is now regarded Ilith less anxiety, and as money becomes cheaper people Will be more inclined to extend their connections. At present the usual ac ive inquiry for accommodation, t ogether with the revenue payments, enab!e 6iscountere to a sh full rates for the assistance they grant, and 61 6 per cent. are the general quotations fur the best bills of three months' date. The return issued from the Bank of England shows that t he establishment had undergone some very favourable el lan,ges. Tho bullion and reserve of notes have been aug tented, while the discount business has been considerably reduced. Subjoined are the particulars : Active Circulation Decrease .. Bullion .. .. Increase .. Rest .. .. .. £19,178,715 .. 463,495 .. 14,122,711 .. 282,017 .. 3,325,294 00 11,350 .. 7,161,719 .„ 693,175 .. 12,267,474 .. 399,290 .. 491,117 40 15,211 10,474,542 No alteration. Other Securities .. 17,730,066 Decrease .. .. 425.066 Notes Unemployed .. .. 8,825,360 Increase .. .. .. 726,055 The return issued this week by the Bank of France is far from satisfactory. The bullion has been decreased 4160,000; the current accounts £712,000; and the advances 820,000. The discounts show an augmentation of 4784,000; the notes in circulation £180,000; and the treasury balances £473,400. Increase .. • • • • Public Deposits .. Increase .. • . • • Other Deposits.. • • Decrease .. • • • • Seven Day and other Bills .. Increase .. • • • • Government Securities • • Two O'CLOCK At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Reuter's Telegram, the 3 per cent. French Rentes were 661 .35 c . Steady. Very little animation has been perceptible in the English Stock Market to-day, This dullness, how over, need not excite surprise, as the rublic gene• i ll; at this season curtail their operations as much possible. The Funds show no change, and Con e°lB are 89i for money, and 89* I for the account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities a re 881 8 ; the Annuities, 1885, 14 7-18; Exohe- Suer Bills, 4s. die. ; and India 5 per Cents., 103. In the Foreign Market there has been very little a nimation or fluctuation. Turkish 6 per Cents., 14 62, are 72 I ; do. Consolides, 474 Mexican, !, 9 1. ; do. New, 271 ; Greek, 22t 234 ; Spanish * r essive, 31/ I; do. Certificates, 14*; the Confede. tote Loan, 62 63; the Danubian, is die., prem.; the Egyptian Loan, 1/ I prem. ; and th e M on t e l idean, 1 prem. In the Railway Share Market a firmer tone hes Prevailed, and prices have shown an upward move lent. South E as t e rn h ave improved £1 ; South l 'a %elnern and Midland each 15s. ; Great Northern, 'rem Western,Lancashire and Yorkshire, Brighton, Z l :d London, Chatham, and Duver each 108. ; and forth Western 52. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain inactive at about previous prices. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares generally show s4t het more firmness. Imperial Ottoman have P r oved to 17fr ; London and County to 80; London , k4 d 'Westminster to 97; ; Ocean Marine Insurance ' 026 1 26 ; and Royal Mail Steam to 931 941. , BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. a ~., 01rE RN AI EN T FUNDS. Per Cent. Consols 0 o Account, Jan. 10 ti ller Cent. Reduced Bl i I„ 6 w 3 per Cent BBf i "6„vv 2i per Cent. Jan. 1891 — I -I- 1 0 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 — 'Llinuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — 1) 0 for 30 y rs , ex pi re sth Ap r il, 1885 l4 7-16 k bo (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — 4chequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per Cont 4 die Do £5OO E Do £lOO an d £2OO 4 ,, 1 * England Stk, 51 per Ct. '0 Account — l II ,,NnI&N GOVERNMENT SEOITRITIE. ~`Likt Stock, 10i per Cent., April 1874 shut h "0 Account 216 x d ",.,0 5 per Cent. July, 1570 .... ",, 0 Account — °" 1 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888 — Do Certificates " 1 , 0 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) — D` ° 4i pea Cent. ° Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent - ° 6 per Cent., Jan. 1872 .. -- —6 Of per Cent., May, 1879 1.) ° 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 Bonds.€l,ooo — pm 4 ' o under £1,900 4 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. III:trial:1 Bonds, 5 per Cent t zilian 5 per Cent ° 4 } per Cent., 1852-58-60 .. 11 4 Do 1863 — jil° B Ayres 6 per Cent Ck ii 9 Acc0unt........ b l all 6 per Cent. I; t i ° 4 i per Cent toj s ktthian 6 per Cent — I,"N 6 per Cent. 140 r - Uk t. _? per Cent. 1864 b`, 4 nt 3 per Cent. 1825 C 5 per Cent, ' 1864 Elis per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid —pm Etdor New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — 0, Provisonal Land Warrant.. — 4 13t' I ) lan 7 per Cent 95/ 6 5/ bc 4100 Bonds 'l') Second Issue b Do 1864 .. 941 51 ( te : k Serip, £l5 paid li t b Pm b 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — L ° Account 1) (1 0 Coupons Q - 4. ...Ccount D , cal ,, ala 5 per Cent. — N ia .too 9 'and 1Ba 9 Ne ki llO per Cent.(Maremmana Railway 711 1 D o e 'n 3 per Cent Account I) Do 1864.. 6 I) Per Cent. Anglo-French x j ° Scrip, £53 paid.... ...... 121 dis olo w o ° French Scrip, Ex 25f 20c — dis x d rieh Imperial 5 per Cent b Granada b° 2 per Cent. b ° Deterred e Land Warrants (Hectares) — ° Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1864 — t 14 Aug., 1866 — Li ttl 0 do o';an 41 per Cent D ° o t. , per Cent. (Uribarren) ... — A IL, 9 per Cent., 1862 o „ . _ Account iplguese 3 per Cent., 1853 D ° Account br, t) Per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 — 4,l4,Account .. b n L at 6 per Cent 1822, /: St. — b," 4 i Per Cont., 1860 .. 1' 1860 — 1 .1 b 0 o ? per Cent 1859 — b o • per Cent, 1862 0 0 8 . 1864 — • ttd i .crip, £O5 paid • (I'llo°l4ll 5 per Cent h 4 11 oi Accll 3 per o Cent b o Account — b ° New Deferred he , Account . 0 Passive thilt_Account 1 1 1) 0 1 : 1 . 1 Cert. of Coup not funded erm,., o oount — tekr.,s 4 per Cent .. L°.4 6 per Cent. 1854 `ltcount o— -00 Per Cent. 1858 bo Account'Acco t,4_ o Bonds tlc, "Per Cent. 1862 4 / 0 Account 1) 0 c f l oo Bonds.. — Ib o I ,, ll ltrunteed, 4 per d ent..... - s ke ' 63 Scrip £4O paid 1 ... , rf Z u d n p t er Cent. I)o°4Per Cent., 1862 1) 0 R e count D "tiEl 1864 04t, i euds on the above payable in London 11 11 81a 4° ' 6 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins. 4 1s t ch 11 21 4 i Per Cent., Ex. 25f — tt'a i 2 Par Cent., Ex. 12 Gail — I re?, Per n t k i:•cb i t —end. Certificates ) ,10 . k entes, 3 per Cent 1 141 0 4.," Per Cent„ 1861, Ex. 25 francs 65 / grovi ount ... ' 4 4 0 :2 Dollar Bonds, 4 per Ct. Ex. 4s. Ds l 5 per Cent Ex. 25f — o THREE O'CLOCK. 4t,1 bc,!' 0000000000 89 i $ ce 4- — " , iot* 00000000 8 A I SHARE YiRKETS.—This day, ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOKS. . Bir., Wol., and Str. Val ! all :tlythe and Tyne. dristol and Exeter Caledonian 10- Cork and Bandon I a:1 Cornwall Do , A A sets no div, ab p o.p an. has Do. B till 6 all been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June.i all Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Juno.' all Edinburgh & Glasgow. , 100 Glasg. and S. 'Western.' 100 Great Eastern, Ord. stk 100 Ditto A stock ' 100 Ditto EastAnglian at 100 GreatNorthot Scotland 100 Great Northern ; 100 Do A stock , 100 Do B do ' 100 Gt. S. an tW. of Irelnn 100 ;Great Westerr,Original 100 Do Str ti al eua. stoc, 100 Do. South Wales 'CO Do. We,, , t Mid. : Oxtord 100 Do Newport Do Hereford Lancashire & Yorkshire, London and Blaoltwa;1' Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast, L An., Chat., and Dov , r, Lon. & Ncrr`h Western! Lon. & So'.th Western' Man., Shet., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do A 5hare5........, .Metropolitan Midland. Do Binning. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwlo, Do, G.N.E. purchas Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle Do. Stock. Ar. Darling 'Do do 1855-58 Do do 18 ;G-61 ;North London Do New Do New, 181;1. North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E., Aber. Moos Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews, and Welohpoo Shropshire Union South Devon ... South Eastern Staines, Wok.,andWok Taff Vale.. . Do C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.4,,R 1 Hallways. 1 r aid. Closing 1 Business Price. I done. hare 13.14,, et st St 50 20 10 10 87 SG 131 132 6 7 31 36 16 17 90 92 106 108 48 i 9 71 81 ;31 136 156 /57 130 13:: E 8 90 7il 71. 67 69 60 44 46 100 / 1 2 1162 ;17i! 82 64 105 06 37 39 1201 12 2 97 98 65 (61 121 , 22 118 1304 108 :10 55 67 25 67 114 114 721 , 73i 1 4 104 i 38 39 11 12p 9 lu . 120 125 2 1 . , 1 14 79 80 101 11} 138 :42 58 V 43 45 86 f 6 8 9 163 CS 3} 44 : 1 9 111 38 40 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. than Railways i.tlantic & St Lawrent •cm.,Baroda&.Cent In , Ga. 5 per cent Do. E. Zihares... dunalo and Lake Miro) Do. Preference tufralo,Brant,&Godrici p, et. bds. Aug. 1, Do. do. July I,lB'i )o. do. Jun, 1. leuttft.ez S. Eastn.(l,i, 'apeTown & Dock `tort Demezara 7 p.o. per. pf , ;astU. Bengal go. t,:ast Indian. Ertl. 5 p. c Do. do. J Ezt.. grand (runt Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge 6 per cent Do. Ist t rel. Bond,. Do. do. deferred..... Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred...... Do. 3d Pref stock ... Do. do. deferred..... Do. 4th Pref. stock... Do. do. deferred...... ‘ 3 t.lndiaPentn,gue..sp., Do. Gu 5 per cen' Do. New gnu. 5!.. it. South.of IndistLim .;11/tranteed 5 r,*er cent Do. 11 per cent..... Do. ..... .. H. W. of Canada Share- Do. New Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt. Do. 5i p. o. do. '77-8.. . Indian Branch Limited Vladras guar.,s p. o. Do. 41 p. o. Extensiot Dc. Do. Fifth Extension. delb.Corp. 4 p. 0. Bud, llelb. & Hobson's Bay. Newßr tzuswiok tCand Class A and B. N.Rl.C'da6 po Ist pi bd, Soinde ........ Do. Delhi Do. do 130. Punjaub p Do. Indus.Sl. Flog) 20 10 .00 Paid, Cloising Prioe. 58 60 102 k [O3A Adis Ap 5 6A 8 D lul 10 all all 100 100 100 2 WO all 75 80 PS 100 8) 90 102& 1033, 104 1J,5 21 22 83 9 1 70 72 61 64 66 68 56 58 53 84 47 50 39 32 28 30 103} 104 pr p pr ip 58 1031 3 93 100 101 163 9 Oi lie 11 83 (;0 80 A 2 1 i d 104 193 ) 96 08 91 03 1031 41 3i 59 61 stock all 100 (100 I 100 2 'lO 'lOO a toot e t ock stook 3 F 2 94 10: IC3 1024 1031 Id 41 3 103 101 15 07 ilO2l 1 31 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. - British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31, 1872.... 100 - Do. do. 1883.... 100 - &Jut, 1877-31 - Do. Rp. c. Feb A Auk 100 97 VD - 1)o.6 p. c. Mar A Sept 100 97 99 - Do. Ip. c. Jan &July. 10( 88 90 63} 9 - Do. 5 Inscribed stoat 100 86 89 pe G. Hope, 6 p c,187: 100 103 105 Do.Ap &Oct. 1881 100 105 107 Do. 189, 100 1(6 108 - )0. Jan. & July. 1891.. 100 109 111 - ;eyton, Nov.lstli, 6 p 101. 102 104 - uo . 1878, do. 100 l 9 112 - Yfituritius 6 p.cent.lB73 00 105 107 Do. 1878 106 106 109 1061 Do. 1832 100 ,(6 108 , Tatal Gov. 6 per cont.. 100 11)4 1(6 - 6 p.c..J a.AJ u 1 .% 1 100 08 101 - S. W. G ov. 5 p 180, lOU I.'B 100 Du. sp. e.,187i to It,r, 100 95 97 Q'f - Do. d0.,1888 Aupwdv 100 94 96 95} Jew Zealand 6 p cent 100 105 107 - Joys Scotia Gov. 6p. e. - sterling, 1875. lou 99 101 - ,Zueensland Gcv. 6p. c. 100 101 10) IC4I i.Aus Gov. p. 0.116- 100 - - - Do. 170 ttui,ward 10u 107 109 - ic.Gov. 8 p.c. Ja.AJul) , 100 - - Do. io 6 p.o. An.&001...1 100 !Mil 107} 1062 BRITISH MINES. 2 'am trtan Consol. Gold 1 i - Chiverton 3 61 71 - „atoru.Arnalgarnated.. - 32 RE loyCtl G. Cons. (Tavist. 1 680 600 - Drakewal:s.. ,st Bassett (Illogan) jv 47 43 - fast Caradon ...... Litt 19 20 ffst Carn Brea 3.4.0 61 7 - East Grenville 2.7.0. 54 6 - East Lovell .... ..... t•V '1 Itussol Cravlsti. ~13,, 5 51 lam.AStAttbyn(Gwen 60 5 7 4 Great Laxey, 11m...! all 19 20 - 'feat South Tolgus... t ;I. 14 2 - Wheal Vor (Ilelstot. 10 35 37 - ;renville - iemd's-loot ,5.13 06 37 lingston Downs..... 4.8.. 441 - largaret (Guy Lelarn , 8 9 - larke Valley.. ....... 1.4 ( 4 41 4 I %lids , Iron Oro (Lim. ?A Xangiles....... ........ 19 18 0 - sew Sewn 2lt CO 70 - • orth Downs - North Roskear.. tt. it 't Busret (111o4ga, 3 1 9 .6 14 2 orth Wheal Crotty . 2.8 0 2} 21 - Prosper United...,.,. 21 3 rovidenoe (Uny Leith. lu 13.7 34 36 iouthCaradon(St.Cleer 11 20 540 Wheal Fran. (Illogac is.is.t 33 36 - itray Park - (`in Cron :6 17 - :Vest Basset (Illogan).. 11 7 9 _ VC , radon (Liskeard 9 5 6 • - West Chiver ton - Nest Beton - ,Sheaf Basset (Mogan, 51 90 93 • - heal Buller(Redruth 10 9 11 - Wheal Luckott ........ 3.5 d• - heal Mary Ann ;Men., 8 13 15 - N heal Beton 5Bl, .95 200 - Wheal Treutwney (Lis., 7 18 20 - .Vbeal Union 4 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties, Ext. No. 1, 107 Great Western, Chester gua. stock, 63 Manchester, Sheffield. and Lincoln, 6 per cent... 127 Gt. Western, Wt. Midland, Oxford Ist guaranteed stock, Ditto, West Mid., gua. shares, 5f per cent., 1t63, 5f Mid Consolidated, 6 per cent. stock, Ditto, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., 137 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Chatham, &c , 6 per cent. 2d pf., f6:5 Metropolitan 5 per cent., 105 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTA.L3. London, Tilbury, and Southend, 101 Wilts and Somerset, VI FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 10f Sambre and Meuse, 7} San Paulo (lim.)4gua. 7 per cent., Ditto (all), 18; West Flanders, 8 West Flanders, 53 per cent. pf., 91 FOitEIGN MINES, Alamillos, limited, If Port-Fhilip, lf Won ping (limited), Yudanaututana of S. Australia, lira., 11 BANKI3. Alliance (11m.), 371 Ditto, new, 36 Anglo Austrian, 6E Australasia, Bank of British Columbia, 17 Think of Wales, lira., 15 Brazilian and Portuguese, lim„ 101 1 British and Californian, Ilm., 3 i I Chartered Bank of India, Australia. and China, 341 Chartered ler. of India, London, and China, 611 2 Commercial Bank of India and the East, _ . _ tAt o, issuedatloPrn., of which 10 11 paid, 19 Consolidated Bank, 11m., 114 11 East London, lim., 64 English and Swedish, lim., 134 European Bank, lira., 81 9 Hindustan, China, and Japan (lim.), Ditto, issued at 2 pm., 214 2 Imperial Bank (lim.), 3411 1 Imperial Ottoman, 174 17 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lira., 44 54 London B .nk of Mexico and S. America, lim., 74 London, Birm„ and South Staffordshire, lim, 171 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 244 London and County, 79 1 805791 London, Hamburg, Cont. Exchange, lim., 101 London Joint stock, 496 Ditto, new, 361 London and South African, 221 London and 11 estminster, 971 7 Merchant Bank, Urn , 29 6 Mercantile and Exchange, 1im.,"9,174 Oriental Banx Corporation, 57 64 Provincial Banking Corporation, lim , 2E3 Scinde, Punjaun, and Delhi, lim., 1 0 4 South E stern, Urn., 111 Union of London, 561 74 - Southampton, 58 9i DOCK S. rn E SUS, LONDON, FRIDAY EVEINING, DECEMBER 16, 1864. MISCELLANEOUS. Australian Agricultural, 20 Bow bay Gas, lim., Ditto, new, 2 Credit Fonder and Mobilier of England, 81 1 Crystal Palace. 32 Egyptian Corn, and Trading, lira., 51 Fore-street 'Warehouse, liFn.,c9i Gen. Credit and Finance of London, Um., 7:6/ 7 Hudson's Bay, 161 Imperial Mercantile Credit Asso., lim., 8i International Financial society, Rm.,. 7i f Joint Stock Discount, Um., 7 London Financial Association lira., 24f London General Omnibus Company, 3 31 :dras Irrigation and Canal, - Ditto (all), 201 National Financial, lint., 5 1 1 New Zealand Trust and Loan, 21 Ocean N arine Insurance), 26 5 Oriental Financial, lira., 5f Oriental Inland Steam, 2 Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, Um., 25 Royal Nail Steam, 91 Societe Financiere d' Fgypte lim., Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), lim., 77, POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--This Day. - -Gs- - MARLBOROUGH STREET, A ScENE IN COURT , —llonorala Murray, a tall, nuscular " unfortunate," who has been several times charged at this court with disorderly conduct, was charged before Mr Barker with annoying gentlemen and behaving in a dis orderly manner. The case having been proved by a constable, Tho prisoner said the police interfered with her when she was with gentlemen, tellieg them she was a thief, and that annoyed her. Mr Barker said she would be committed for 14 days. The prisoner in a loud voice exclaimed, " That's righ get my Christmas dinner and some sauce." On being removed from the court by Barra, the gaoler, the prisoner behaved in a most outrageous manner, kicking at every one she came near. On getting into the yard she picked up a stone, and threw it with great force through the window of the prisoners' waiting room, where several prisoners and constables were sitting. She then became so desperate that it was only by the united exertions of the gaoler and five or six constables she was got to the cells, she all the while using the most violent expressions, and swearing she would have the life of a constable before she was done with them, On ne occasion when the prisoner was charged in the Old Court, she in her desperation flung herself headlong down a flight of stairs, and afterwards smashed some panes of glass in a door. WESTMINSTER. DEXTEROUS ROBBERY FROM A CART ^JOIII2 Mahain 16, was charged with stealing a portmanteau, containing boots and shoes, value £9, from a cart in Tachbrook-street, Pimlico. Mr Thomas Hooker, boot and shoe manufacturer, of 14, Church-street, Bethnal-green, said that at 5 o'clock yester day evening he was at the shop of Mr Eastgate, boot maker, 10, Upper Tachbrook-street, Pimlico, and left his cart outside, containing samples of boots and a pertmanteau. He heard an alarm, and ascertained that a portmanteau had been taken from his cart. Mr Eastgate and his shopman went one way and witness drove another. Mr Eastgate caught the prisoner and brought him to the station. Mr Thomas Eastgate, 10, Upper Tackbrook..street, said he heard an alarm, and proceeded down St. Leonard-street. He saw about 60 yards in front of him prisoner and two other men walking. Prisoner had a bundle on his shoulder, and as witness approached he saw it was the portmanteau which had beon stolen. Prisoner's companion spoke to him, and he crossed over the road, and witness running up collared him. The other had just before holloaed out, and this caused prisoner to turn round. Seeing witness, he im. rnediately dropped the bag between them and ran away. Witness picked up the carpet-bag, and the shopman pur sued him, while he took the bag to a shop for safety. He lost sight of prisoner, but as the shopman pursued him he turned up the same street as he had run down, and witness and his shopman caught him together. He said he knew nothing about it, and said he would pay for a cab to the station, where he was taken. Constable Saunders, 99 B, proved being at the station at the time, and that prisoner retused his address, Prisoner, who had a very gentlemanly demeanour about him, said he did not wish to disgrace his parents, but now gave his address as 40, Union street, Heaton Old Town. He was remanded. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary and a Special Jury BANCROFT T. BANCROFT AND RUMNEY. This was a cross action instituted by the husband for a dissolution of marriage on the ground of adultery with the co-respondent, and he also claimed large damages. Mr Overend, Q.C., said this was a case in which thejury would have to say whether the respondent had committed adultery with the co - respondent. The petitioner was a gentleman, living at Manchester, and in 1862 he married the respondent, who had, previous to her marriage, been living in the house of her brother—in-law, Mr Rumney, the co-respondent. The petitioner and her husband lived together in happiness until Aug rst in the same year, when a fact was disclosed which quite altered the relation of the petitioner, and Mrs, Bancroft subsequently left her hus band's home for her brother-in-law's, and now he believed she was living at Bolton, where she had been since her departure from the petitioner. The learned counsel then went into a detail of the facts of the case, which were disclosed at the last trial when the wife instituted a suit for judgment on the ground of her husband's et uelty, and obtained a divorce niol. The evidence in the present case would be to the following effect : That Mr Rumney, being the brother-in-law of the respon dent, had taken advantage of his connection to seduce her affections from her husband, and that on several occasions he had committed adultery with her. That at unseasonable hours he visit d her at her husband's house, and under very peculiar circumstances. That he had been seen at various places by different persons in Manchester with the respon dent. lie would admit that one or two of the witnesses were of doubtful character, but there would be strong cor roborative proof as to the consistency of the testimony given by them, and they were persons entirely unconnected with the respondent and co-respondent, and could have no motive for giving false testimony. The facts which had led to the institwion of the present suit caused frequent quarrels, which led to great unhappiness, and he would admit of certain acts of violence on - the part of the husband. [ rhe learned counsel was then going into certain acts of adultery, when frequent interruptions took place on the part of Mr M. Chambers and Mr Sergeant Ballantine, the counsel for thb respondent, who urged that the adulteries alleged to have been committed by the respondent were entirely new to them, tad that the particular issues which they were called upon to meet were entirely unknown to them, and that in common justica there ought to be an adjournment, and the costs ought to be defrayed by the petitioner on the ground that he was the party who had not complied with the rules of the Court.] His Lordship said he had no alternative but to adjourn the case. Mr 0 verend contended that every information had been given, which would be found to be the case if his lordship looked to the record. His Lordship said he had it then in his hand. Mr Overend said th , y would show the several acts al- leged were there mentioned, and if the parties concerned for the respondent had not properly understood them he considered his client ought not to be put to the expense of paying the cost of an adjournment. His Lordship considered that both parties ought to be subject to loss, as although the petitioner seemed to have been in somo measure to blame, the respondent was not entirely blameless. He should make no order as to the costs, The easo was then adjourned till next term. - OILETWYNN V. CILETWYND. Sergeant Ballantine said his lordship would be almost as much delayed in this as the former case, for in the case of Chetwynd v, Chetwnd, which stood next on the list, they were totaby unprepared in consequence of not having the slightest ictea that the for.ner case would break down, and that he was then the only legal representative in the case present—the Queen's Advocate, who was to open, being at the present time addressing the Court: of Privy Council, and there was such peculiarities in the case that he did not feel himself equal to the task of opening the case. The Judge Ordinary said he would give the learned ser• grant until one o'clock to obtain the attendance of the gen tlemen engaged in the case. The court then adjourned until that hour, when The learned Judge again took his seat. The case then proceeded. It was a suit instituted by Mrs Blanche Chetwynd against her husband, Wm. Henry Chetwynd, for dissolution of marriage on the ground of cruelty and adultery. The respondent denied the charge in the petition, and pleaded that she had condoned the adultery, and that if adultery had been committed, she con duced to that state of things by her misconduct. Mr Karalake, Q.C., said the present suit was of the most painful and extraordinar) nature. The petitioner was the eldest daughter of the Hon. and Rev, Arthur Talbot and the respondent, William henry Chetwynd, a brother, he believed, of the present Baronet. The parties were married in August, 18.54, the lady being then about 15 years of age, and Mr Chetwynd about 43. The evidence he should have to offer to them was of the most pain ful and extraordinary nature, and s.uch that but very rarely, if ever, had been heard of in a court of justice The respondent, not content with the greatest cruelty,. but, according to his instructions, ho not only was lost to all feelings of dee( ncy, but had actually brought women of the worst description into the very house in which hie wife resided, and there committed acts of adultery. Not content with this, he became familiar with the female servants in his establishment, and in one ease he kept one of the domes tics in the house as a mistress. He had horsewhipped his wife and turned her out of door*, and had been guilty of using language towards his wife that would come from the grossest mind, and which respectable men could nut permit their lips to repeat; but, not content with this, he had taken his eldest daughter, Florence, into the drawing-room and made her kick her mother. One would have imagined that this would have been the very extreme of brutality; but not so, as he had called up his young son Arthur, and, after having compelled him to spit in his mother's face, had made him spell a most disgusting name. The learned Counsel then detailed a number of acts of the most corrupt nature, and commenced reading a number of letters written to a number of his mistresses, some cf whom were women who had been do mestics in his own home. At the rising of the Cottrt the further hearing of the case was adjourned until to-morpow. The Knighthood of the Chief Magistrate Sir Thomas Henry is the 10th chief magistrate appointed at the Bow-street Police-court. The first was the half-brother of Henry Fielding jothhennFovieelldisit7v:hom he succeded as a justice of the peace. Henry Fielding found the magistracy in so corrupt a state that it was considered a disre put a b offi c . T i la u e s j t u i s c t e i s e, Were paid by fees and we re called By refusing to accept w h a t "trading he he reduced the incom e from 0 to annum. Fielding was termed i5O "dirty x 3o m peronY'" en gaged in carrying out im provements in the police and magistracy when he became disabled from ill health. He was succeeded by his brother John Fielding, who though blind, was a very efficient magistrate, and riwith considerable energy. In a r his ed time out theth the new payment sy of justices by fees was abo lished, and on the appointm en t o f st i pen di ary mag i c . carried trates he became chief magistrate. He was knighted in 1761. He died in. 1780, and was succeeded by Sir William Addington. The succeeding chief magistrates were Sir Richard Ford, Mr. Read, Sir Nathaniel Conant, Sir Robert Baker {who resigned in consequence of a complaint a gainst him that he had allowed the funeral procession of Queen Caro line the app o i n t e d course ), Si r Rh from h o had n ot b een a mag i strate previously to his appointment as chi e f), Sir F. A. c t a o rd be B diverted irne ( sv Roe, Mr. Hall, and Sir Thomas Hen r y. I t w ill b e i seen that only two—Mr. Read and Mr. Hall— declined the honour of knighthood, which is offered to every chief magistrate upon his appointment. Sir Frederick A. Roe, who was knighted in 1832, was made a baronet in 1836, upon the death of his uncle, Mr. Adair Roe, whose property he inherited. Mr. Thomas James Hall, the late chief magistrate, was appointed to that office in 1839. Sir Thomas Henry was called to the bruin 1829, and appointed a magistrate in 1840. Ha was originally appointed to Lambeth Police.court from which he was removed to Marlborcugh-street, and thence to this court, upon the resignation of Mr Twyford, in 1846 He was appointed chief magistrate on the retire ment of Mr Hall in the present year. THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY AT THE POST-OFFICE. —The following notice has been issued from the General Post-office :—As Monday the 26th of December will be kept as a holiday, in consequtnce of Christmas-day falling on Sunday, there will be no delivery of letters by the London district post in the afternoon of that day. Letters for the night mails will be collected from the town pillar boxes at 5 p.m., from the town receiving houses at 5.30 p.m, and from the suburban boxes and offices at the usual time ; but there will be no later collection either from the pillar boxes or the receiving houses. The receiving houses will be opened for half-an-hour before the afternoon collection, for the receipt of registered letters and for the sale of stamps; but no money order or savings bank business w:11 be trans acted. Letters to be forwarded by the morning mails on Tuesday, the 27th December, must be posted either at the head district offices, the branch offices at Lombard-street and Charing-cross, or in the town pillar letter boxes, as there will be no collection for such mails from any town receiving house ; but in the suburbs letters for them will be collected as usual. The morning mails will be despatched from London as usual, but the - provincial mid.day mails will not be forwarded,— W, BORENHAM, Controller, Address to President Lincoln, A deputation from the Emancipation Society waited 'upon the Hon. C. F. Adams, the American Minister, yesterday afternoon, at his residence in Portland-place, to present to his Excellency, for transmission to the United States, an address con. gratulating President Lincoln on his re-election. Mr F. W. Chesson, the hon. secretary, read the following address adopted by the Emancipation Society for presentation to Mr Lincoln : TO . HIS EXCELLENCY ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Sir,—We, the President and members of the Emancipa• tion Society, with profound respect for your person and for your office, congratulate you upon your re-election as Pre sident of the United States of America. Your first election marked you out as the freely chosen leader of the people for the express and avowed purpose of resisting the encroachments of the slave power, and we re • °ice that, after four years' experience, your countrymen are again determined that you shall act as their chief magistrate far another term of office, in order that the hateful institu tion of slavery way be entirely abolished. We agree with those who elected you in their dekto- tions that slavery was the cause of the rebellion' it is your dnty to quell; that it •' must be hostile to the principles of Republican Government;" and that both " justice and na tional safety demand its extirpation," and we at the same time feel confident that while vigorously conducting the remaining operations of the war so as to accomplish this high purpose, your administration will be guided, as it has hitherto been, by an earnest desire to mitigate the suffer ings inseparable from a condition of strife. We have noticed with peculiar satisfaction the sanction and aid given by your Government to the voluntary cfforts of the Sanitary Commission, whose agents have not confined their bene ficent action to their own party in the struggle, but have bestowed the greatest care and attention upon the sick and wounded rebels who have fallen into your hands. We deplore the loss of valuable life in the protracted conflict which the slaveholders have forced upon your coun try—but it is an honour to you and to your fellow-citizens that no prisoners have been put to death for the mere fact of being taken in arms against your Government—and we have faith that you will continue to show all passible mercy and forbearance to the enemies of your republic, and thus leave to your contemporaries and to posterity the gratefu task of placing your moderation in noble contrast with the deplorable and sanguinary ferocity exhieitt d by European despots towards those whom their cruelty has driven to revolt. Thit your exertions may shorten the duration of the war, and that your country, thoroughly purged and puri fied from the crime and curse of slavery, and with every citizen, without regard to race or colour, standing in per fect equality before the law, may enjoy internal happiness, and exert a useful and widespread influence for the ad vancement of liberty and the general good of mankind, is the wish and prayer of your sincere friends. WILLIAM_ EVANS, Chairman. P. A• TAYLOR, Treasurers• W. T. MALLESON, F. W. CRESSON, Hon. Secretary. London, Dec, 1864. After complimentary speeches from several members of he deputation, His Excellency Mr, ADAMS said,—Mr Chairman and Gentlemen,-1 receive the address which you are pleased to commit to my care with great satisfaction. Coming as it does from an association of such respectability in this king dom, it cannot fail to be regarded in America as a strong proof of the friendly interest taken by a considerable por tion of the English people in the welfare of the United States while passing through their great perils. This will do great good, for I cannot disguise from myself or from you the painful fact that an opposite disposition has been manifested here in very influential circles, and that the knowledge of this has given rise to a general impression among my countrymen that the whole British nation really desires the disruption, and consequent downfall, of the power of the United States. Hence has sprung up a cor responding degree of which bids fair, if not counter acted, only to increase with time. If such passions be per mitted a full indulgence between two nations it needs little sagacity to foretell that, in the long run, the end is war. i Very fortunately for us all in the present case, the demon. strations already made by yourselves, and may other asso ciations whose friendly communications from various por tions of the kingdom I am now continually receiving for transmission to America, will enable those who value the blessings of peace and international amity to prove that, whatever may be the hostility of some, it is by no means shared by the great number of the British people, and ought not to be presumed to be a national impression (Cheers.) Permit me, gentlemen, further to observe that the election to which you refer in your address has drawn out as full and general an expression of the opinion of the whole people of the region in which it has taken place as has ever been the case in the most peaceful times, Never was a canvas more perfectly free, nor more latitude taken in all the discussions of public questions and of the characters of public men. Under these circumstances it is needless to point out to you how mistaken hav4 been the notions of some that any essential variation has taken place in the general operation of free institutions in all that portion of the United States, constituting much the greatest part, not immediately the theatre of the war. (Cheers.) I would further beg leave to call your attention to two points which the history of the late election appears clearly to establish. The first is the practical impossibility of making any effec tive separation of the personal and political interest of the two sections of America now involved is this deplorable struggle. This is indubitably shown by the fact that at no time in our history has so direct and persistent an effort at iwerference to control the event of the election of Presi dent been made by the people of the insurgent States as upon this last occasion, while they profess—and doubtless honestly, their desire to separate themselves wholly from it. The notorious projects devised by some of their agents at Niagara Falls in the autumn, followed as they were by the nomination at Chicago of a candidate for the Presi dency committed to a policy dictated by that portion of the people well known to be most in sympathy, it not in abso lute communication, with them, furnish evidence enough of this truth, if the same were not ionfirmed by the regrets unequivocally expressed since by certain prominent leaders in the Southern States at the failures of their expectations from that nomination.. This shows that, whatever might be the sincerity with which either portion of the country migh act is the supposition that it should consent to pledge itsel to a complete separation, the fact that the political interes of the two are inextricably interwined will, under every pos sible circumstance, render all such promises in practice futile and void. The second point to which I would advert is natu rally sugg, sted by the first. It is this—that the only real question of difference between the two parties in the election was that which d irectlyinvolved the interests of the elavehold ing insurgents, much more than those of the loyal States. (Cheers.) The nomination at Chicago rested on an implied, if not an express engagement, to protect domestic slavery so far as not to make it a question in any plan of pacification or restoration of the Union. (Hear.) The policy of the Go vernment, on the other hand, was well understood to be a restoration of the Union as a primary object, but the set tlement of the slave question as a necessary preliminary to a durable 're-establishment of peace. If this be a correct statement of the issue, it can be no cause of surprise to find the insurgents straining every nerve to bring about a result favourable to their interests. It was then the fate of slavery that made tho turning point in the great deci“ bion to be made by the people of the United States on this occasion. If this be so, the result is one in which we may be permitted all to rejoice in common. It has continued a Government which has already done much towards eman cipation in the progress of the war, and which might be de pended upon to go on doing more, in proportion as matters should approach more nearly the great end of its perfect work. (Hear.) I will conclude, then, with the expression of a hope that, without regard to national distinction, all good men may have cause to rejoice in the termination of this melancholy struggle, if that end bo at once the confir mation of a free Government in America, and the eradica tion of the most formidable evil with which its progress has been heretofore cursed. (Loud cheers ) Three cheers were then given for Mr Lincoln, and the deputation withdrew. The divorce case—Stone v. Stone and Apple. ton, which has been in course of trial for several days, was brought to a close yesterday. This was the second trial, the former one having ended in a verdict far the plaintiff, the jury finding that the wife had committed adultery. Yes terday this decision was reversed. The jury found that the respondent had not been guilty of the adultery charged. A SCHOOLMASTRR CHARGED WITH BURGLARY AND WASTING 150 GALLONS OF ALE.—At the Court-house at Driffield on Wednesday, William Arnott, of Poston, near Driffield, schoolmaster, was charged with breaking into an ale cellar, and stealing and wasting a large quantity of ale, the property of Mr Robert Gibson, of Fos ton, brewer. Robert Rose stated that he locked the brewery and the ale cellar on Saturday night at 6 o'clock, and saw that all was safe. There were eight 18 gallon casks on the gantry working, and another bat rel nn the tap. On Sunday morning he found the cellar door broken open. He fetched Mr Gibson, and they found eight of the casks thrown down and nearly empty. The others were laid on their sides and nearly empty, and the contents were spilt on the floor. A stick and a hat were found in the cellar. Mr Gibson said that all the ale—about 150 gallons, worth is 3d per gallon—was wasted, except two eighteen gallon casks, He saw all safe at ten o'clock on the previous night. Police constable Gardam stated that ha took Arnett into custody on Sunday night, and charged him with breaking into Mr. Gibson's ale cellar. He said " Yes." He asked the prisoner if he could produce the hat and stick he had in his posses sion on Saturday night; and he said he had lost them. He said "You have found it out. I may as well tell you the truth, I broke into the cellar, myself. I was alone, and I left my hat and stick. I got my bellyfull of drink," The prisoner, on being asked by the magistrates if he had any thing to say, made a statement similar to the above; and said the cellar door came open as easily as a man could take his het from his head, but he denied upsetting the ale bar rels. lie was committed to prison for a month. 482 I i 1351 157 6i 79 i i i 0 501 8i 1162 172 17 83 16 384 1201 981 7i 662 1211 1 I 1391 a 9 114 i 14 73 1 MI 43} 4 t 6 if i 6 Business don, THAMES, CAUTION TO RUFFIANS.—Edward Downey, a very rough-looking fellow, aged 31, of No. 37, Devonshire-place, St. George-in-the-East, was brought before Mr Partridge charged with being drunk and disorderly inside the Blue Posts publichouse, in the West India-road, Limehouse, and refusing to leave when requested by Mr Charles R. Balls, the landlord. This was a proceeding under a recent Act of Parliament relating to houses of public entertainment. The prisoner entered the Blue Posts last even . ng, at half-past 5 o'clock and demanded refreshment. Mr Balls refused to serve him and told him he had been forbidden the house in conse quence of his (prisoner's) riotous conduct in the house. The prisoner refused to leave the house, and made a great dis turbance. He abused Mr Balls, and made a great dis turbance. He was ordered to leave the house, and on his refusal Cawse, a covetable, was sent for, who took the pri. soner into custody. The prisoner was very turbulent, and interrupted the business of the public house. The prisoner said he had been at work in a corn vessel yesterday, and did 50 quarters. lie went with his work mates to the Blue Posts to settle their wages and accounts, and after they had 7 or 8 pots of porter he wanted another pot, and the landlord refused to serve him. Mr Balls said he would not supply the prisoner with any thing, drunk or sober, and that ho was the terror of the household. Mr Partri te said the landlord was quite justified in what he had done. The proprietors of public houses and their servants had no right, and were not bound to serve, drunken and disorderly customers. Every person miscon ducting himself in a publichouse and not leaving when requested, was liable to a fine. Ho sentenced the prisoner to pay a penalty of 40s or be imprisoned 21 days. The prisoner was committed. MARKETS—This Day MARK-LANE. Fresh up to our market today the arrivals of home grown wheat were very moderate. The trade, however, was dull for all qualities; nevertheless, selected parcels steadily supported previous quotations. With foreign wheat the market was well supplied, Red American descriptions moved off steadily at full prices, otherwise the trade was dull on former terms. Floating cargoes of grain were in slow request at late rates. There was a full average supply of barley on the stands. The trade even for malting descriptions ruled heavy, and inferior produce changed hands at low prices. The malt trade was dull, and prices had a drooping tendency. Owing to the large arrival of oats the oat trade ruled heavy, and the quotations were somewhat easier. Beans and peas were in slow request, at about stationary prices. Flour moved off slowly, at late rates. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English .. 1,760 2,660 649 10 3,030 Tsrish .. Foreign .. ..„..- - 5i,880 150 BOROUGH HOP. The amount of business passing in our market is very moderate. The supply of produce on offer, however, is small, and prices of all descriptions rule firm. per cwt. New Mid and East Kent New Weaid of Kent New Sussex Yearlings NE W GATE AND LEADENHALL. Fair supplies of meat are on sale at these r►arkets. The ;rade generally is firm, at our quotations. Per 81b, by the carcase. sdsd inferior beef .. 3 0 3 6 Middling do. .. 3 8 4 2 Prime large do. 4 4 4 6 Do. small do. .. 4 8 4 10 Large pork .... 3 8 4 8 Inferior mutton. 3 8 4 8 a dsd Middling mutton 4 6 4 8 Prime do .. 4 ]0 5 0 Vaal . . 3 10 4 10 Small pork 4 10 5 2 Lamb COLD: INIAL. TEA,—The public sales of Indian have produced little animation. About 3,300 packages were all sold at steady prices, SUO.AR.—There has been a great demand for West India, and the late advance in prices has been fully sustained. In the refined market common and brown lumps are quoted 43s to 438 6d. COFFEE.—The demand for both plantation and native Ceylon has been steady, 'end superior qualities have slightly advanced, Other descripti ns continue in fair demand at late quotations. RlCE.—Only moderate transactions have been entered into, but prices in most instances are well sustained. FRUIT.—The public sales have gone off without any spirit, and quotations generally are unaltered. GREEN FRUlT.—Market brisk:for all kinds, owing to the usual Christmas demand. Some parcel oranges from St. Michael's, Terceira, ,Fayal, Valancia, and Sicily, sold by Keeling and Hunt, went at an advanced price. Lemons improved in value. Stack light. Black Spanish nuts in request—Para scarce. Moderate inquiry for walnuts. French chesnuts sell freely, price moderate, A. cargo of Bilboa has arrived, TALLow.—The market remains quiet. P.Y.C. now on the spot is quoted 41s to 41s 3d, and January to March delivery 41s Gd per cwt. The directors of the Continental Bank Corporation have given notice that the third instalment of £5 per share on the new shares of the company is payable on 2d Jan. next, The mail from Guayaquil has brought a remittance of X 1,043 l7ss 3(1 on account of the dividend on the debt of Ecuador, Mr Ruskin on the Education of Women, On Wednesday evening Mr Ruskin delivered a lecture in the large room of the Manchester Town Hall, to a fashion able audience, in aid of a fund for fitting up schoolrooms in a densely-populated part of St. Andrew's parish, Ancoats. Mr Moslem' said this lecture was a sequel to one he de livered a week ago, In the former one he endeavoured to show that there was only one pure kind of kingship —that which consisted in a stronger moral state, and in a truer thoughtful state than that of others, enabling us therefore to guide or serve others. All literature, and all education were only useful so far as they led to the apprehension and continuance of that kingly power, first over ourselves, and through ourselves over all around us. He was going to ask that evening what portion of the royal authority aris • ing out of education might rightly be possessed by women, how far they were called to a true queenly power over all within their spheres. This could not be determined until it was agreed what the ordinary and common power of women should be. List week he said the best use of education was to enable us to consult wise men on all points of difficulty. Applyi n g that rule now,' he would inquire what the greatest, the wisest, and the purest hearted among the men of all time held as to the true dignity and position of women. Taking Shakspere first, he had not one entirely heroic figure in all his plays, except the slightly sketched one of Henry the Fifth, exaggerated for the purposes of the stage, and the still slighter Valen tine in the " Two Gentlemen of Verona." On the other hand ; there was scarcely a play that had not in it a perfect woman, Isabella, Queen Katherine, Perdita. Sylvia, Viola, Hermione, Imogen, Helena, and last and perhaps loveliest, Vircilat were all faultless, all conceived in the highest type of humanity. The catastrophe of every play was brought about always by the folly or fault of a man; the redemption, if there were any, by the wisdom and virtue of a woman. Observe also that among all the principal figures in Sheik spere's plays there was only one weak woman, Ophelia, and it was because she failed Hamlet at the critical moment that all the catastrophe followed. There were wicked women among the principal figures, but they were felt to be excep tions, and were fatal in their influence according to the power of good they had abandoned. As the writer who had given the broadest and truest view of the conditions of ordi nary thought in modern society, he would next ask his hearers to receive the witness of Sir Walter Scott. In the whole range of his works only three men approached the heroic type, Clayerhouse, Rob Roy, and Dandy Dinmont. Of any deep, consistent character, of any purpose wisely con • ceived, there was no trace in any of Scott's conceptions of men—whereas in his conceptions of women—Helen Douglas, Flora M'lvor, Catherine Seaton, Diana Vernon, even in Meg Merrilies, and last and loveliest in J eanie Deans—we had an infallible and inevitable sense of dignity and justice, and an entire self-sacrifice. Going back to the testimony of the:great Italians and Greeks, the plan of Dante's great poem, was that it was a love poem of thanks to his dead lady for her watch over his soul. Among the Greeks we found the simple mother's and wife's heart of Andromache ; the divine, yet always rejected wisdom of Cassandra, the play ful kindness and simple princess life of the happy Nausicaa —the lofty calm of Penelope, with its watch upon the sea; the ever-patient piety of sister and daughter in Antigone ; the going to sacrifice of Iphigenia, lamb-like and silent; and finally, the expectation of the resarrection rendered clear to the soul of the Greek by the return of Alcestis, who to save her husband had deliberately gone down to the shades of death. He could multiply such instances from Chaucer, and Spenser, and others, but ho would content himself with asking his hearers to give its legitimate value to this testimony of the great poets and great men of the world. Lastly, he would take the evidence of facts given by the human heart itself. In all Christian ages notable for purity and progress there had been absolute obedience of the lover to his mistress. What we too often doubted was the fitness of the continuance of that relation through out the whole of human life, It was .thought that the re verence and deity were to be withdrawn when the affec tion had become wholly and limitlessly our own. Was not that most ignoble ? The idea of the guiding function of the woman was reconcilable with that of the obedience, for her guidance was that of the compass, not that of the helm. Hers was the guiding not the determining function. We were most foolish in discussing which sex had the supre macy. The man was eminently the doer, the discoverer, the defender ; the woman's intellect was for order, ar rangement, and decision. Home was the place of peace and of shelter, not only from injury but also from terror. Whereever a true wife came such a home was always around her. Accepting this, then, as the true conception of the office and dignity of woman, the next question was what kind of education would fit her for it. Her physical training and exercise must be continually directed to per feet her health and beauty. Physical freedom was vain to produce beauty without a corresponding freedom of heart. Wordsworth truly said of a maiden : " Vital feelings of delight, Shall rear her form to stately height." They must be of delight to be vital. We mast not think make a, girl lovely without making her happy. The per fect beauty of a woman's countenance could only come out of that' majestic peace which arose from a well-remem bered past of happy times, full of sweet records, and from the joining of those with that more mejestio childishness which was yet full of change and promise, and bright with presage of things to come and to be bestowed. Then, as the strength would permit, we had to fashion the girl's mind with all manner of thoughts which tended to confirm its natural instinct of justice, and to unfold its natural instinct of love. Ali such knowledge should be given her as would enable her to aid the work of man ; and it should be given, not as knowledge, but only to enable her to feel and judge. It was of no moment whether she knew many languages or sciences, but of the greatest importance that she should be trained to habits of accurate thought, Chiefly she should be taught to extend the limits of her sympathy with re spect to the sufferings which were continually befalling those around her. A girl's education should be, in its course and material of study, the same as a boy's, but quite dif ferently directed. A woman in any rank of life ought to know what her husband was likely to know, but to know it in a different way ; he for a complete command of it—she for a daily and helpful use of it, Man should know the subjects thoroughly ; woman should know them only so far as to enable her to sympathise with and to enhance all the pleasure of them. She should, however, know them accurately, and not have a mere smattering of them, or she would but tease, and not help, her husband. Of the two, a girl should be led earlier than a boy into serious, subjects, as her mind developed earlier, as they would make her less frivolous, and would be calculated b add the qualities of patience and seriousness to the buoyancy of her thought and wit, and to occupy her mind with the loftiest and purest elements of thought. The books for her reading should be chosen; they should not be all those that fell out of the package from a circulating library wet.with the spray of folly. It was not the badness of a novel that he would dread, but its overwrought excitement. The weakest romance was not so stupifying as the 1 west form of religi ous penny-a lining; the worst romance was not so corrupt ing as false history, philosophy, and politics. Good novels, such as modern literature gave examples of, might be made serious use of, being nothing less than treatises on moral anatomy and chemistry, and on the study of human nature in all its elements. But he attached little weight to their teaching, as they were not read with sufficient seriousness, Whatever novel, poetry, or history was read should be chosen not for what was out of it, but what was in it. Scat tered evil in a powerful book never did any harm to a noble girl ; it was the emptiness of a book that oppressed her, and its amiable folly that degraded her. If she had access to a library of old and classical books there need be no choosing for her; she would find what was of use for herself. The difference between a girl and a boy was that they might chisel a boy as they would a rock, or might hammer him as they would bronze, but they could not hammer a girt into anything. She grew as a dower did, and would wither if not treated kindly. In art there should be kept before her the finest modela, which were the truest, simplest, and most useful. Her practice in accomplish ments should be accurate and thorough. One more help she could not do without; it would do more than all other ins Anences beside. De Quincey, in his beautiful essay on Joan of Arc, stated that her early life was passed on the borders of a boundless forest, haunted by fairies. It was the soli tude and the quiet thought that came out of the loveliness and divinity of nature that made her noble soul raise her to what she became. If they had a garden large enough for their children to play in, with just as much lawn as they could run about upon, they would be wrong in displacing it by a coal shaft, even if they increased their income thereby sixtyfold. Yet this was what they were doing with England. It was only a little garden, scarcely too large for all the chil dren to run about in; and this they would turn, if they could, into furnace ground and heaps of cinders. The chil dren suffered from thirefor the fairies would not be banished, There were fairies of the furnace as well as of the wood ; and the first gifts of those fairies of the furnace were arrows of the mighty, but the last were coals of juniper. Snowdon was our Parnassus; the Holyhead mountain our island of mina. Where was its temple of Minerva f In the ieport of 1848, published by the Committee of Council on Education. the examiner stated that, in a school under the shadow of the Christian Parnassus, and near a town containing 6,000 persons, he examined a large class of girls, three of whom declared that they had never heard of Christ, two that they had nev er heard of God, two thought Christ was still on the earth (not so bid a thought, by the way), and th r o e knew n ot h i ng about the crucifixion. The women of. England, from the truemust fo indo of thinkf rest, t P h r a i rth es e s ir ocfhilWdraelnesootuoidthbee brought t t o o f t h a e l while such as he had men tioned were scattered on the hill as sheep without a s h e pherd ; or that their daughters could be trained to the truth of their human beauty, while the plea sant places which God made for their schoolrooms and play grounds were desolate and defiled ; or that they could ever be baptised rightly in the inch-deep fonts until they were baptised in those sweet waters which the Great Law giver struck forth for ever from the rocks of their native land, waters which Pagans would worship in their purity, but which we only defiled. The last and widest question was, what was to be the queenly office of those children with respect to the State? Generally speaking, they had the impression that a man's dutie s were c hi e fl y public, an d a woman's private, but this could not be altogether so. A man had a private work or duty relating to his own house, and a public work or d u ty re l a ti ng t o th e ,state. So a wosnan h ad a private duty relating to her own hou.tehold, and a public work or duty, which was the expansfon of those. [he man's . work for his own home was maintenance, progress, defence —the woman'teorder, comfort, and loveliness. The man's duty to the commonwealth consisted in the maintenance and defence of the state ; the woman's duty as a member of the commonwealth consisted in ordering, comforting, and attending to the beautiful adornments of the State. Within the human heart there was always set an instinct for all its real duties. It was long since the women of England arro gated universally a title that once belonged to t rte nobility only, that of lady, which rightly corresponded telly to the title of lord. He did not blame them for this, but only for the narrow motive for it. They might claim the *le of lady, provided they claimed also the corresponding (Zee. Lady meant bread giver, or loaf giver, as lord meant maintainer of:law ; and these had reference, not to law maintained in the house, or bread given to the household, but to law main tained for and bread broken among the multitude. They were ladies if they cared for the bodies of their vassals ; they were queens only as they became empresses tf their souls, There was not a war in the wor ld, there was not an irjus tire doing in it, but women were answerable for it; not that they had provoked it, but that they had not hin dered it. *en by their nature were prone to fight fur any cause ; it was for the women to choose the cause for them. There was no suffering injustice, or misery on earth but women primarily were guilty of it. Men could bear the sight of it; women should not bear the sight of it. Instead of exercising their power, women shut them • selves wilhin their garden gates, and were con'ent to know that there were beyond them, in the wilderness of the world, secrets they did not penetrate, and sufferings they did not attempt even Ito console. '1 his was to him th e most amazing thing among all the phenomena of hum. , nity. There was another garden besides that in which it was ;prettily slid flowers would grow the better for . those who loved theta. Did they never hear of a Magdalene who went down into her garden at the dawn, and found one waiting at the gate whom she took for the gardener ? Had we not sought Him often at the gate of, 'that old garden where the fiery sword was set ? He was never there. But at the gate of the other garden He was waiting always, to take our hands, and to go down with us to see the fruits of the valley, to learn whether the vino had flourished and the pomegrana'e budded. Among the hills and happy greenwood of this land of ours, should the foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, while the stones of the street cried out against the women —the queens—of England, that there were no other pillows than those stones whereon man, the son of man, could lay his head P (Applause.) A cordial vote to Mr Ruskin, oa the motion of Mr Butterworth, seconded by Dr. Wilkinson, concluded the proceedings. THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening, DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 15. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Samuel Weeks and Andrew Fleming, Eqrs., to be members of the Legis lative Council of the Island of St. Lucia ; Richard Southey, Esq., to be Colonial Secretary for the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope; and Giovanni Battista Trapani, Esq,, M.D., to be Collector of Customs, and Vincenzo Borg, Esq., to be Cashier of the Treasury of the Island of Malta. CROWN-OFFICE, DEC. 14. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PAR- LIAMENT. County of Warwick (Northern Division) —Wm. Daven• port Bromley, Esq,, in the room of Richard Spooner, Esq., deceased. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 16. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Captain John Henry Brown to be Captain, vice Thomas Longworth Dames, who resigns—Second CaptainW alter Aston Fox Strangways to be Captain, vice William Morris, decleased —Lieutenant Arthur Ford to be Second Captain, vice Brown—Lieutenant Francis Montague Smith to be Second Captain, vice Joseph Nathaniel Portlock Matson, deceased—Lieutenant Francis Arihur Mant to be Second Captain, vice Strangways—Gentleman Cadet Edward Blaksley, from the Royal Military Academy, to be Lieutenant, vice Ford—Gentleman Cadet John Pon sonby Caudill, from the Royal Military Academy, to be Lieutenant, vice Smith—Gentleman Cadet A. Foulger Fletcher, from the Royal Military Academy, to be Lieutenant, vice Mant—Quartermaster-Sergeant Ben jomin Trew to be Quartermaster, vice Black, retired upon half-pay. The date of the retirement upon full-pay of Major Gene., ral Henry Pester and the removal of Major General Sir Richard James Dacres from the Supernumerary to the Effective List, is the 11th, and not the 10th, of September, 1864 as stated in the Gazate of the 20th September last. The second Christian name of Lieutenant Russell is Broadfoot, and not Broadford, as stated in the Gazette of the 20th September last. AD\IIRALTY, DEC. 13. Royal Marine Light Infantry—First Lieutenant and Adjutant James William Vaughan Arbuckle to be Captain, dated 9th instant, vice Clendon, to half-pay—Second Lit u tenant Charles Albert Louis Moore to be First Lieutenant, dated 9th instant, vice Arbuckle. ADMIRALTY, DEC. 14. Royal Marine Light Infantry—First Lieutenant John Strsghan to be Adjutant, vice Arbuckle. - DEC. 14. The undermentioned officers have been this day promoted to the rank of Surgeon in her Majesty's fleet :—Peter Wil liam Wallace, Esq., M.D. (acting) ; Alexander Collins, Esq. ; Arthur McKenna, Eeq., M.D. Mr Williams Gubbins Starling has been promoted to the rank of First Class Assistant Engineer in the Fleet, with seniority of Deo. 7. BANKRUPTS. The following are the only bankrupts:of commrcial portanoe in the Gazette : George Bloore, grocer, Leek William Archer, ropemaker, Norwich George Betts, cheesemonger, Shoreditch John Wilson, tea dealer, Holroway-road William Day, grocer, Lambeth Walk Samuel John Adey, commission agent, Dalston Wm. Tate, silk manufacturer, Leeds Benjamin Brindley, grocer, Crewe. Frederick Robinson, shoemaker, Hastings James Fleming, traveller, Bradford George Thacker, greengrocer, Bradford George C. Pettipher, painter, Warwick BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. Felix M'Donald, journeyman carter, Liverpool Charles Mars len, decorative paper maker, Shoreditcb. SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. H. L. Schneider, yarn merchant, Glasgow Wm Brown, grocer, Lanark James Hume, miller, Edinburgh Robert Burns, jun., coal merchant, Glasgow Robert Morison, merchant, Stornoway Robert Gaul, cabinetmaker, Glasgow Course of Exchange,—This Day. Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 11 18i Antwerp ... 25 52k Brussels .— 25 52t Hamburg — 13 7i Paris . . Short. 25 12k Ditto Marseilles ....... Frankfort on M eine Vienna Trieste Petersburgh — 1 2 0 4 Berlin — Madrid 11 151 11 19 12 19 25 571 25 57f 13 8 25 `AO 25 571 25 57} 1201 12 121 12 121 301 461 Cadiz — 47 47i Leghorn — 25 73 25 77/ Milan 25 70 25 77i Genoa — 25 70 25 75 Naples Palermo.. — 25 70 25 75 Messina — 25 70 25 75 Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard)......per oz., £3 17 9 Mexican Dollars SilNer in Bars (Standard) • 0 0 0 RACING FIXTURES FOR 1865. JANUARY. Manchester 2 FEBRUARY.' Lincoln Spring MARCH. ----- Derby Spring Liverp00l Spring Shrewsbury Spring .... 9 Chelmsford Spring .... 28 ------- The bullion operations at the Bank yesterday comprised an influx of £58,000 in bar gold, and the withdrawal of 15,000 sovereigns for the West Indies. The suspension has been announced of Messrs. Berger Brothers, metal brokers, of Mincing lane. Daring the last few days there has been rather mere activity in the markets for Foreign and Colonial Produce. At the public sales of Indian tea full prices were obtained. Sugars have been in more demand at enhanced prices ; while a lair amount' of business has been done in coffee, rice, and cocoa. In fruit there has been very little anima tion, while tallow has been in moderate request at steady prices orf both present and forward delivery. An extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of the London and Northern Bank was hold to-day, for the pur pose of considering the propriety of carrying into effect the proposed arrangement with the Midland Bank, by,which the latter company takes over the principal branches of the bank at a sum nearly equivalent to one and a-half year's purchase of the profits of the business, and also for volun tarily winding up the affairs of the London and Northetu Bank. AN OLD PONY.—Lord Nelson, a favourite pony, the property of Mr Palin, of Stapleford Hall, Cheshire, was found dead on Saturday morning last. He had attained to the almost unprecedented age of 43. A few days before his death he could not be caught when turned into the fields, and few fences could stop him. The day before his death h e appeared quite well, and was grazing as usual. Soma straw had been placed in a corner of a field, to prepare for thatching, upon which he had laid himself down and died apparently without a struggle. lie was perfectly sound in wind and limb to the last, and had not a windgall about him. —Manchester Courier. Dl3es isa ned l of try ileir on -1 in ay lid ,cif o , t us' ;16 4w - A stock CU stock 1 0 itoo:, stook stock stock stock 9tock stock 104} f